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Samuel Johnson (1709-84) was an English poet, novelist, critic, lexicographer, biographer, and editor.But it was his essays that made him a dominant figure in 18th century English literary life. David Womersley is a lecturer in English at Jesus College, Oxford. He edited the authoritative three-volume edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as the one-volume abridged.
Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'. Buy Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, Boomerang Books. Book Details. ISBN: 9780140436273 ISBN-10: 0140436278.
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Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson. This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure.
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Beginning in 1758, Samuel Johnson continued the tradition begun by Addison and Steele and later by himself in a twice weekly journal called the Idler. Johnson had a life-long problem with meeting the realities of publishing a periodical--that the publisher had to adhere to a rigorous schedule of writing, editing, and printing a never-ending series of articles.
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